Pidgins

Parkvall, Mikael; Bakker, Peter

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“…Pidgins tend to be developed in a rapid, abrupt, and "catastrophic" manner (Muysken 2001:160) and, crucially, have no native speakers who would have acquired this language through a parent-to-child transmission (Holm 2010:254, Childs 2010:704, Noonan 2010. Lastly, from a purely linguistic perspective, pidgins exhibit a remarkable degree of simplification in comparison with their feeding languages, whether superstrates, substrates, lexifiers, or targets (Childs 2010, Joseph 2010, Parkvall & Bakker 2013; see however Roberts & Bresnan 2008). 5…”

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Grammaticalization in Fanakalo: simplification, complexification, and acceleration

Andrason

2024

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The present article studies the structure of the resultative stream (a part of the verbal system that hosts grams diachronically evolving along and synchronically modelled by means of the resultative path: resultative > perfect > perfective/past and resultative > stative > present) in the Fanakalo pidgin as compared to the lexifier Nguni languages (Zulu/Xhosa). The evidence indicates that the organization of the resultative stream in Fanakalo is different from that found in Nguni, attesting to both simplification and complexification, as well as the acceleration of the movement along the resultative path and the cline of structural grammaticalization. This corroborates the views concerning the increase in complexity of stabilized and expanded pidgins and the observation suggesting the acceleration of grammaticalization processes in a situation of contact.

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Grammaticalization in Fanakalo: simplification, complexification, and acceleration

Andrason

2024

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“…A pidgin will be used in limited circumstances, most frequently for trade, and will never develop first-language learners. It will not be native to anyone (more on the development of pidgins and their linguistic features is in Parkvall & Bakker, 2013a;Winford, 2003, pp. 268-303;Mesthrie, 2008;Smith, 2002;Markussen-Daval & Bakker, 2017;and a summary in Aikhenvald, 2014, pp.…”

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“…Trade pidgins used between speakers of neighbouring unrelated languages in New Guinea include Yimas-Arafundi Pidgin (Foley, 2013), Arafundi-Enga Pidgin (Williams, 1995), Pidgin Iatmul in the Middle Sepik region of New Guinea (Foley, 1986) and the putative Kwoma-Manambu Pidgin (Bowden, 1997;Aikhenvald, 2008). These pidgins stand apart from European trade jargons in that they developed between traditional trade partners rather than in the situations of new contacts (Parkvall & Bakker, 2013a. The impending spread of Tok Pisin, the ubiquitous lingua franca of the country, as well as English, have taken their toll; the New Guinea pidgins went into decline, and are now only remembered by a few old people.…”

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The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

2024

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Guide to Gender and Classifiers (OUP, forthcoming), in addition to a general interest book I Saw the Dog: How Language Works (London, Profile Books). Her current focus is on the integration of language and society and the ways of conceptualising disease and well-being in minority languages and cultures, and investigation of languages and cultures of Amazonia and New Guinea, including a comprehensive grammar of Yalaku, from East Sepik. xiii CONTRIBUTORS Shaun Gessler is an anthropology PhD candidate from the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs. His thesis investigates the relationship between the Chinese majority-run Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project in Papua New Guinea and the indigenous communities on whose land the mine is located. Shaun has professional experience in Papua New Guinea working and volunteering in international development, which underpins his research interests in the anthropology of development, the social impacts of resource extraction and China's rise in the Pacific.Cathy Hair has broad experience in tropical aquaculture and fisheries. She has been involved with projects in the Pacific Islands region for more than two decades, working on aquaculture commodities for livelihoods and food security. In 2020 she completed her PhD, a multidisciplinary thesis on development of community-based sea cucumber mariculture in Papua New Guinea. Cathy is an Adjunct Fellow within the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University and the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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“…Tense/aspect markers can develop from different parts of speech (e.g., copulas, adverbs, and verbs (Clements, 2014)). Time is optionally indicated through context or adverbials (e.g., yesterday, now, tomorrow, and later, whereas mood can be expressed by words such as maybe; Parkvall & Bakker, 2013;Sebba, 1997;Velupillai, 2015). Such pidgins include Pidgin Fijian (e.g., malua 'later,' liu 'before,' mataka 'tomorrow,' and nikua 'now'; Sebba, 1997),…”

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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Alshammari

2021

Sustainable Multilingualism

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Summary The earliest stages of pidgin formation show a preference for analytic and morphologically reduced grammatical constructions relative to their lexifier or substrate languages, where the apparent morphological marking, if found, seems to be fossilized. Structural relations, therefore, are mostly expressed externally. Tense/aspect categories are marked through temporal adverbials or inferred from the context. Creole languages, however, are said to develop such categories through grammaticalization. This study examines tense/aspect marking in five Arabic-based pidgins: Juba Arabic, Turku Pidgin, Pidgin Madame, Romanian Pidgin Arabic, and Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Using Siegel’s (2008) scale of morphological simplicity, from lexicality to grammaticality, this study concludes that tense/aspect marking is expressed lexically through temporal adverbials or inferred from the context in the earliest stages of Arabic-based pidgins, which only later—in stabilized pidgins—develops into grammaticalized markers when certain criteria are met.

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Pidgins

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Grammaticalization in Fanakalo: simplification, complexification, and acceleration

Grammaticalization in Fanakalo: simplification, complexification, and acceleration

The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

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